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What are you using for bedding? I started to notice slugs when I added leaves for bedding in my indoor bins. I stopped doing this.
I now pick the slugs out and give to my friend, who has chickens.

I pick them out too.

My bins are outside and I noticed a huge increase in slugs when we had those really warm spring days. I was pulling them out of the bins and stepping on them left and right until my conscious started to bother me.

Now I don't want to sound like a tree-hugging fanatic, but I figure most things in nature have a positive purpose EVEN when I might find it difficult to figure out what that POSITIVE purpose might be - so I stopped squashing the slugs and began tossing them into a small wooded area that borders my property. (Wish I knew someone with chickens :-)

If I could find a way to keep the slugs on the poison ivy that doesn't want to die no matter how many times it's dug up and cut down, I'd be happy.

If you didn't find the slugs in your worm bedding, I'm wondering how they got inside your house??? I don't think slugs would want to come inside and would find it difficult to do so even if they had joined together and made a plan to invade. I'm thinking you must have brought them inside on some plant material. Perhaps the two you found were an isolated incident?

FYI: I've found that if I store my leaves up off the ground there are fewer slugs to deal with. Once I picked out all the baby and adult slugs in early spring, I haven't had any to deal with since.

(I am curious about the coffee grounds as a slug repellant. Hopefully someone will explain this.)

I'd bet that you brought the slugs or their eggs in with some material, unless you have a really damp basement - no need to try putting up a defense, there won't be an invasion, just pick off any you see

Bill

Thanks. I wintered plants in the basement until recently. Likely eggs came in then. My bedding is all shredded paper, cereal boxes, etc.

Slugs are really attracted to discarded grapefruit rind halves. Take a few and place them in your bins cup side down, and check them every morning.